As for Mullah Obama, he will keep setting off bombs like this at the north end of town while we ignore another 2 million Hispanic peasants storm over the former US border he ordered opened. The man has his priorities.

"If you had left your country and party in such a state, you'd be acting like a petulant jerk, too." -The last line in this article!And it is soooooo true!!http://theweek.com/articles/670479/pathetic-end-obama-era

Considering the stunts he has pulled the last couple of weeks, I would not at all be surprised. He has shown himself with his petulant behavior to be capable of anything. Just trying to work himself into Carter territory for bad presidents and he doesn't even know it.

1. The Senate will nuke the filibuster rules on SCOTUS 2. On Jan 20, the Senate can vote itself into recess (with the easy consent of the house). That ends the "Recess Appt". Garland is out of both jobs.3. The Left gets 2 weeks of Garland on the SCOTUS and loses a lifetime seat on the most important Appellate Court?4. The whole gimmick is sleazy

I don't think Obama will do this to put Garland on the Court. No, he'd pick William Ayers or Valerie Jarret or someone like that if he were to try it.

Likely, he'd put Hillary on there. Why not? Sure, Hillary's old and dying, but the seat's lost anyway. Hillary likely stands the best chance of being a hard left liberal that might not be rejected by the Republicans.... anti-women, she did "win the popular vote" after all.

Plus, it ends her career as a presidential candidate for sure.

He can't nominate himself, so Hillary's the biggest knife in the back left for the US.

As Unknown says this would be a pyhrric victory because it could be immediately negated, but as AJ Lynch says Obama is enough of a narcissistic asshole to do it. The childish behavior by parts of the Democratic party and its enslaved press has to be making even those who were hesitant to vote for Trump completely convinced of the correctness of their choice.

Notice how quiet the MSM is about it? If the situation were reversed, they'd be all over Republicans, incessantly asking about it, raising the issue, trying to force them to say they wouldn't do it.

Recess appointments only last until the end of the next Senate session. I suspect some important coordination by the President, Vice President and Senators Schumer and Durban. Mere recess appointments for the things that don't require Senate confirmation, and Senate trickery to nominate and confirm Garland and as many open federal judges as they can before all hell breaks out.

Then, on Jan 15, there will be another kick in the teeth to Israel. They'll introduce a UN SC resolution passing sanctions on Israel, any nation that financially/militarily supports Israel, and any individual/organization that financially supports Israel. The International Criminal Court will be busy. it could start the war Obama always wanted.

Then, on Jan 15, there will be another kick in the teeth to Israel. They'll introduce a UN SC resolution passing sanctions on Israel, any nation that financially/militarily supports Israel, and any individual/organization that financially supports Israel. The International Criminal Court will be busy. it could start the war Obama always wanted.

It's never a good sign for a republic when supposedly sane people are encouraging the use of obscure parliamentary maneuvers to get what they want. They don't seem to realize that the next step after "This is why you got Trump" is "This is why you are being shot at."

In this case the likelihood of any, even temporary, success is essentially nil, so I don't expect it will happen.

If he does it, it would be Obama attempting to throw a wrench into the gears of government because his candidate and his policies lost the election that they had thought would be theirs for the taking. Maybe a better terminology would be "scorched earth". Except the ones getting burned would be the Democrats as Garland would not only have a cup of coffee on the court before the permanent nominee is confirmed and seated, but Garland's replacement by Trump on the Court of Appeals would be seated, in theory taking a "liberal" seat off of that court. Plus, Harry Reid opened the door to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate with his "nuclear option" years ago allowing Mitch McConnell the excuse to finish the job with any and all higher federal court nominees in this session when the Dems object (again, scorched earth). Obama is just throwing a temper tantrum if he does this going out the door. But then again, his legacy may not be the laws and policies he shoved through these past years but because of his and the Dems' arrogance, particularly the first 2 years of his administration (remember the "I won" quote from 2009?), the Dems have lost both houses, the presidency, most governors seats, and most state legislatures. That will be his true legacy, the deconstruction of the Democrat Party and not many prospects for the immediate future. Now, Trump has as big of an ego as Barry, so it will be interesting to see if the GOP totally submits to The Donald or has a backbone and do what is right for the USA and doesn't give him everything he wants, ensuring their destruction.

There's no point in doing anything like this (aside maybe from emergency appeals) as the Senate is likely to confirm an appointee before any new cases can be decided. In fact it would rush the confirmation process, which is not something Democrats wold want to do. And it really does nothing for Merrick Garland. Does he get a higher pension? Do his opinions carry heavier weight? Will it get him more invitations to make commencement speeches and get honorary degrees and does he need them?

As it is, I heard on one of the Sunday shows, that maybe a Supreme Court nomination might be made on January 20, with the hope f getting someone on the court by April (the time for Ruth Bader Ginsberg to be cofired was 50 days) so that some cases in the 2016-2017 term might be heard and deciddd by 9 justices.

Then, on Jan 15, there will be another kick in the teeth to Israel. They'll introduce a UN SC resolution

It won't happen. There's no reason for israel to worry about that. ON Januay 15, theer will be a meeting about Israel in PAris organized by France. I would not epect it to lead to any UN action by the end of that week. If Israekl thinks so they have really realy bad intelligence.

I don't see an easy path for Trump getting a nominee confirmed because I don't see him getting 8 Democrat votes and I don't see McConnell getting rid of the filibuster. I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe Schumer extracting a huge price for Dem votes.

This is why the "news" is so terrible. Because they don't understand what the hell they are talking about. They pretend they do understand. Then they spread gossip. And then everyone else thinks they understand but are as ignorant as the media they are receiving their information from.

The 2016 Term is half over. The 2017 Term will have no significant decisions before the recess appointment ends. There's no point in a recess appointment to the Court. But Garland would not lose his ability to judge. Former Supreme Court justices can sit as visiting judge in any circuit as often as they like. O'Connor does it. I think Souter limits himself to his hometown First Circuit.

I think Obama is playing the long game. His eyes are on the office of Secretary General of the United Nations. The latest (Antonio Guterras of Portugal) was selected in October and will hold office until the end of 2021. This may be why he was so focused on reducing the power of the USA. Obama would love having this country under the thumb of the UN, and be in the driver's seat.

I don't feel ashamed of expecting the man who sicced the IRS on his political opponents, spied on journalists, intervened in the Israeli election, and committed all manner of deceits to get his Iran "deal" to pull a power play like this.

Megyn Kelley moved to NBC in the 5-minute break, where she'll be a better fit.

Fox News has increased its lead over MSNBC and CNN substantially this year to the point that in November the network led all primetime basic cable channels (This may be an outlier caused by Fox's Election Day coverage. Anybody with his finger on the national pulse watched Fox, whilst other coverage was watched after-the-fact on YouTube as entertainment.) What's interesting is the hour-by-hour breakdown. Over the past seven to ten months Kelly's share has not kept pace with the rest of the Fox primetime lineup. During that period Kelly re-tooled her on-air persona from Nice Middle-American Girl Who Made It Big to Flinty Urbane Überbitch, which dismayed her fan base. Many have tuned her out, choosing to have the evening meal during her time slot rather than watch her — the TV stays on, but the sound in muted and the room is empty. Furthermore, I have noticed a perceptible degradation in her content. Her guests are too often second tier. Kelly is smart and nice to look at, but she hasn't made silk purses from the sow's ears conversations her show has become lately.

NBC is going to use Kelly to replace Katie Couric in the perky newsbabe post that the Peacock network pioneered. Over time Couric revealed herself to be grinning predator, willing to use the lowest forms of deception and trickery in the service of left-wing propaganda, this, for example. Also, Couric's neck is getting far too ropy for the perky bit.

I don't feel ashamed of expecting [Obama] to pull a power play like this.

It is possible, highly probable in fact, that Merrick Garland restrained our increasingly petulant passive-aggressive POTUS with a clear signal delivered over the long weekend that he would not accept a seat on the Court under those circumstances. They are becoming exceedingly rare but conscientious liberals are not entirely extinct — not yet anyway.

Quaestor: Megyn Kelley {snip] re-tooled her on-air persona from Nice Middle-American Girl Who Made It Big to Flinty Urbane Überbitch, which dismayed her fan base. Many have tuned her out...

I'll confirm this. My wife reacted pretty much as Quaestor says, and mostly to the personality switch-up to Feminist Warrior Kelly where she suddenly claimed to be standing up for every woman. WTF? You are a reporter, a presenter, you are not the news and we didn't tune in to hear your opinion on Trump.

She became much more emotional and inserted herself and her view of feminism into every story. She started calling Donald a sexual predator. Newt had to scold her on-air for phrasing questions with a "if he's a predator" preambles, and it didn't phase her at all. She called him out of control. We all knew right then she was auditioning for a part with the DNC-MSM complex. And then the way she went after Ailes after Carlson et al had already done the hard part of coming out and saying what they went through, after she used Ailes quote on her first big book to launch it, after she had publicly praised Ailes effusively to get what she wanted she turned and joined the "he said bad things to me" bandwagon. All her talk about empowering women etc and she did not use her nationally televised platform to do what was right. Not until after someone else had given up everything (G Carlson) to fight for what is right.

Kelly is a phony. She will fit in well at NBC and I don't mean that as a compliment to either party.